• Dracaena terniflora

    Dracaena terniflora Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 2: 159 1832. (Syn: Dracaena terniflora var. heyneana Hook.f.; Pleomele terniflora (Roxb.) Merr.); dra-SEE-nah — dragon … Dave’s Botanaryter-ni-FLOR-uh — from the Latin, meaning flowers in threes … Dave’s Botanary  commonly known as: dwarf dracaena, wild dracaena • Kannada: ಕೆಂಪು ಬೇರು kempu beru • Malayalam: മഞ്ഞക്കാന്ത manjakkantha • Tulu: ಕೆಂಪುಥ ಬೇರು kemputha beru  Images by Prasad Dash (inserted…

  • Abutilon × hybridum (Cultivated)

    Abutilon ×hybridum hort. ex Voss, Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed. 3, 1:135. 1894; Images by Gurcharan Singh, Gurcharan Singh, Gurcharan Singh & Gurcharan Singh, (inserted by Bhagyashri Ranade) Shrub up to 2 m tall with soft-wood; leaves usually 3-5 lobed, green or variegated; flowers solitary often nodding like a lantern when young, expanding when mature,…

  • Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (USA)

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt., 324 1840. (Syn: Aster viscidiflorus Kuntze; Bigelowia douglasii A.Gray; Bigelowia douglasii var. latifolia (D.C.Eaton) A.Gray …; Bigelowia glauca (A.Nelson) K.Schum.; Bigelowia viscidiflora (Hook.) DC.; Brickellia linearifolia Klatt; Chrysothamnus douglasii (A.Gray) Clem. & E.G.Clem.; Chrysothamnus glaucus A.Nelson; Chrysothamnus latifolius (D.C.Eaton) Rydb.; Chrysothamnus leucocladus Greene; Chrysothamnus pumilus Nutt. …; Chrysothamnus…

  • Chrysothamnus

      Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. (USA) (Images by Mahadeswara Swamy (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))

  • Crucihimalaya mollissima

    Crucihimalaya mollissima (C.A.Mey.) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price, Novon 9: 299 1999. (Syn: Arabidopsis mollissima (C.A.Mey.) O.E.Schulz; Arabidopsis mollissima (C.A. Mey.) N. Busch; Arabidopsis mollissima var. dentata O.E. Schulz; Arabidopsis mollissima var. glaberrima (Hook.f. & Thomson) Naqshi & Javeid ………..; Hesperis mollissima (C.A. Mey.) Kuntze; Sisymbrium mollissimum C.A. Mey.; Sisymbrium mollissimum f….

  • Arabis

    Arabis amplexicaulis Edgew. (Images by Alok Mahendroo (Id by Gurcharan Singh & J.M.Garg) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))   Arabis amplexicaulis Edgew.? (Images by Nidhan Singh, Prashant Awale, Dinesh Valke (All Ids by Gurcharan Singh) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, click…

  • Veronica species/ hybrids

        flora Australia-12: Pl confirm species of-Veronica– family scrophuliaceae Yes looks like Veronica persica   Jawa Herb 2: A herb, maybe Lamiaceae. ID is requested. Please show close up of flower Could be Lamium album, but needs further study To me this looks more like a Veronica sp….. Perhaps…

  • Madhuca species ?

    Madhuca species ?;     Is this a grafted Madhuca Indica sapling?:  We had visited SFRI, Jabalpur this week for obtaining a grafted ‘Madhuca indica’ sapling but were told this would not be possible for them to provide now as they had to meet their targets for the panchayat etc. So…

  • Crucihimalaya

    Crucihimalaya axillaris (Hook.f. & Thomson) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price (Himalaya to Tibet: East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)    Crucihimalaya himalaica (Edgew.) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price Crucihimalaya mollissima (C.A.Mey.) Al-Shehbaz  Crucihimalaya wallichii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price  

  • Cassiope fastigiata

    Cassiope fastigiata (Wall.) D.Don , Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 156 1834. (Syn: Andromeda fastigiata Wall.);   A much-branched tufted shrublet usually less than 20 cm tall with closely packed thick small leaves arranged in four rows; flowers axillary, pendent, white on up to 7 mm long pedicels; calyx with…

  • Cassiope

      Cassiope fastigiata (Wall.) D.Don  

  • Lentinus tigrinus ?

    Lentinus tigrinus (Bull.) Fr., 1825 (syn: Agaricus dunalii DC., 1815 ..; Agaricus tigrinus Bull., 1782; Clitocybe tigrina (Bull.) P. Kumm., 1871; Lentinus dunalii (DC.) Fr., 1825; Lentinus fimbriatus Curr., 1863; Lentinus tigrinus var. dunalii (DC.) Rea, 1922 (ambiguous synonym) ….; Omphalia tigrina (Bull.) Gray, 1821; Panus tigrinus (Bull.) Singer, 1951; Pleurotus…

  • Acanthus leucostachyus

    Acanthus leucostachyus Wall. ex Nees, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 98 1832. (syn: Acanthus leucostachyus Wall.); . E. Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO; . Herbs to 1 m tall, erect, unbranched. Stem brown, ca. 4 mm in diam.,…

  • Silene species

        flora-Australia 8 : A herb `Silene.-F-Caryophyllaceae     Caryophyllaceae Week: 08122012GS1 Silene for ID from Kashmir: Please help in the ID of this species. Cultivated annual barely 25 cm tall with pink small flowers barely 5-8 mm broad. Photographed from Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir        

  • Saussurea albescens

    Saussurea albescens (DC.) Sch.Bip., Linnaea 19: 330 1846. (Syn: Aplotaxis albescens DC.; Himalaiella albescens (DC.) (Unresolved));   Tall perennial herb reaching 3 m with several stems from base; leaves linear, lanceolate, elliptic to oblong, lower petioled and sinuately lobed, upper entire and nearly sessile, up to 30 cm long, white woolly…

  • Opuntia species

    Opuntia mickeyum 922011 – UD 001:  for your perusal …. Date/Time-   9 2 2011 named  Photo from 2008 summer Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-  Sea level Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-  Nursery Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb-  small plant, just starting out Height/Length-  10 inches at the most Leaves Type/…

  • Potamogeton nodosus

    Potamogeton nodosus Poir.,  Encycl. Suppl. 4: 535 1816. (Syn: Potamogeton americanus Cham. & Schltdl., nom.illeg.; Potamogeton americanus subsp. mascarensis (Cham. & Schltdl.) A.Benn.; Potamogeton americanus var. novaeboracensis (Morong) A.Benn.; Potamogeton americanus var. thunbergii (Cham. & Schltdl.) A.Benn.; Potamogeton canariensis Link; Potamogeton drucei Fryer; Potamogeton fluitans subsp. americanus Graebn.; Potamogeton fluitans…

  • Artemisia vestita

    Artemisia vestita Wall. ex Besser, Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 3: 25 (1834) 25 1834.; . Pakistan to Mongolia and China: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qinghai, Tibet, West Himalaya, Xinjiang as per POWO; . China (Gansu, NW-Guangxi, Guizhou, N-Hubei, Liaoning, Qinghai, W-Sichuan, Xinjiang,…

  • Operculina turpethum ?

    Operculina turpethum ?; . identification no080611sn3:  This flower has not been identified yet.is it Datura sp.? kindly identify. looks like Operculina turpethum from Convolvulaceae family its Operculina turpethum from Convolvulaceae, From another thread By any chance could this be a half bloomed flower of Dolichandrone falcate  or Medhshingi? The leaves look…